John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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... father was a scrivener by profession but he was also a musician of parts , a composer of some note , and well acquainted with many in the world of music and the arts . In a Latin poem , " Ad Patrem , " in which he was urging his father ...
... father was a scrivener by profession but he was also a musician of parts , a composer of some note , and well acquainted with many in the world of music and the arts . In a Latin poem , " Ad Patrem , " in which he was urging his father ...
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... father than were many of his school- mates . Over one of these students we must pause for a little — the closest friend Milton ever made , Charles Diodati . In the " Lament for Damon " which Milton wrote in memory of his friend who died ...
... father than were many of his school- mates . Over one of these students we must pause for a little — the closest friend Milton ever made , Charles Diodati . In the " Lament for Damon " which Milton wrote in memory of his friend who died ...
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... father , " had two sons , Edward and Henry . Earlier biographers were inclined to think that the subject of the sonnet was Henry , who outlived his father , but evidence presented by John Smart makes it much more probable that the young ...
... father , " had two sons , Edward and Henry . Earlier biographers were inclined to think that the subject of the sonnet was Henry , who outlived his father , but evidence presented by John Smart makes it much more probable that the young ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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